URL is not on Google

[drtom]

After several days of thinking I'd gone live with my shop the page has yet to be indexed.

I've updated the sitemap and checked the robots.txt file. Everything seems fine there. Is there a redirect on PC's side that might be causing me to get the "Page is not indexed: Redirect error" on my property's Search Console?

[Pierre_P]

There are a few tools that would be of significant help.
I would start at https://search.google.com/search-console and https://merchants.google.com/
https://www.bing.com/webmaster/login/redirecttohomepage
Very quickly you will establish any issues and fix them.

[BrockleyJohn]

One thing to eliminate in search console is whether an issue is historic or still current. When you go into the list of pages that aren't indexed because of a redirect, it shows you a Last Crawled date. When you click on the row it opens up a side panel that also shows the time.
From this panel you can click on Inspect URL which shows you the details but also offers Test Live URL

This quickly returns a result that tells you whether the URL is accessible to Google now, and will also tell you if indexing is allowed (by your robots.txt) and if you are declaring a different URL as the canonical.

If it appears that Google is being redirected but you can access the URL yourself, first triple check they are actually the same URLs and not very similar ones.
Then change your ip address by using a VPN (maybe choose a server in US as many of their crawler ips geolocate to US) and check you can still access it.

Redirect rules can be set up in your site's htaccess but also in your hosting to perform actions based on the ip address of the browser.

Bear in mind that Google may not index all the pages on your site, whatever you do. The best you can do is make sure all pages are accessible and indexable and that there is lots of content with good structuring.

[drtom]

OK. Thank you.
My question is this: Is PC the source of the redirect error I'm experiencing?

[Kofod95]

I think it is unlikely that core PhoenixCart is causing that. Assuming your configure files are correct, core usually don't give any trouble like that.

I don't know if any add-ons you have installed could be at fault, though.

//Daniel

[14Steve14]

Have you also set up Bing webmaster tools. You can submit sitemaps and see lots more info from that search engine there. I find it easier to use than google tools, but that just may be me.

[drtom]

Sorry Folks,

It's just my noobieness showing again. The following may be helpful to others in a similar situation.

I have a very simple html website to which I added the shop as another page, rather than have it be an independent site. Because I don't do web development on a daily basis, I must relearn pretty much everything each time I get back to it, and even the most basic concepts can elude me.

In this case it eluded me that the shop is not an html file like the rest of my site's pages. The shop resides in a folder within my root directory and in this folder resides index.php.

Correcting the path helped.

[drtom]

Have you also set up Bing webmaster tools. You can submit sitemaps and see lots more info from that search engine there. I find it easier to use than google tools, but that just may be me.

I did and that's what finally clued me in.

I also found it useful to try various sitemap and robots.txt validators for the feedback they provided. It's good to know how many pages get crawled and possibly indexed, pages I wouldn't want crawled or indexed.